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Happy Find… Star Wars Here! (But Far, Far Away…)

(SIDENOTE: I am not sure why sometimes I feel it necessary to censor myself and type “effing” instead of the real word. Oh well, fuck it.)

This is just one doctored shot in the film series by Cedric Delsaux.

(SIDENOTE: I was going to specify that he was a French photographer, but it seemed self-explanetory. Ha! See-threepio what I did there?)

Basically, he took pictures around Dubai, and added in Star Wars characters. It’s as nerdy cool as it sounds. You can check the rest out by clicking here.

In other Star Wars news, could these fire rescue masks be the inspiration for Darth Vader and C-3PO?

Yeah, probably.

Apparently they were used in between the late 1880’s and World War I. From the article in the Atlantic:

“The buzz among collectors is that George Lucas’ designers must have found inspiration in these smoke helmets and other [sic] like them,” [collector Steve] Erenberg wrote. “In fact, one well-known 19th-century manufacturer” — that early company — “was named Vajen-Bader.” From there, Vader isn’t a big stretch.